UX News
A look at what's going on in the field of user experience.
Rake Weighting: How to Weight Survey Data with Multiple Variables
, MeasuringU
Having a representative sample is ideal when making inferences about your customer or user population. In practice, it can be difficult to recruit the right proportion of respondents, leaving your sample out of balance with the population.
One way to adjust for being off balance is to weight the data you collected to get the sample back into proportion with the population percentages (such as for variables like age, geographic region, or experience levels).
Cultivating the human capabilities that matter most
, UX Collective - Medium
Developing product discovery judgment through psychological safety, collaboration, and systematic practices.Diagram created by author using Google Gemini AI text-to-image creatorHow do you develop the judgment to decide what software is worth building when AI makes building it faster and cheaper?
This article explores how to systematically strengthen discovery judgment, whether you’re building solo or as a team. For background on why judgment becomes the critical constraint when AI accelerates execution, see my previous article “When building software became easier with AI, deciding became harder.”
How to re-use old User Research: the weakness many organizations face
, UX Collective - Medium
Fewer people than ever are willing to dig through old customer insights
Building a digital democratic platform designed for civic matters
, UX Collective - Medium
A great time to innovate democracy, while the technology is in place.Wireframe illustrating how comments could be rated for clarity, insight, and inclusiveness in real timeAbout twenty years ago, just after turning eighteen, I tried to follow politics because I cared about living in a fair society. I wanted everyone to have food, healthcare, safety, education — the basics any decent person wishes for others. But politics felt toxic: shouting, accusations, and no real progress. Even the word began to feel heavy.
I know I’m not alone; many people feel frustrated or disconnected. Yet politics should be noble — collaboration, empathy, coexistence.
The salt in the AI cake: seven emerging jobs no one is preparing for
, UX Collective - Medium
In the quiet corners of our technological revolution, there is a crisis no one is naming. We are building systems designed to augment human capability whilst simultaneously dismantling the very expertise needed to govern them. This is not a story about job displacement. It is about a category of work we have not yet learnt to value.The cake you cannot fixI often explain responsible AI development through baking. If you bake a cake with salt instead of sugar, you cannot fix it afterwards. You have to start over.
The metaphor lands because everyone understands irreversibility. Yet I keep meeting consulting firms and product teams, many in highly regulated sectors, who assume they can retrofit compliance later. Build fast, they say. Worry about transparency and accountability once the system works.
Creating UI Assets with ChatGPT
, UX Planet - Medium
ChatGPT is a versatile tool that can be used for all kinds of purposes. I’ve already demonstrated how to use it for UI design
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UI Design with Midjourney
, UX Planet - Medium
Midjourney is a great AI imagery generator. The latest version (v7) is capable of producing decent-quality visual output. A lot of articles and videos show how Midjourney can generate different kinds of visuals, but a few demonstrate UI design output.
In this article, I want to share a prompt template that you can use to generate UI design with Midjourney, tips & tricks on how to achieve better results with the tool, and examples of the output generated by the tool.
What Metrics Has MeasuringU Created?
, MeasuringU
At MeasuringU®, we don’t just use UX metrics—we create them.
But what have we created, and what have we just used or extended?
Stop being so humble
, UX Planet - Medium
Why it’s time for content designers to rise upWe’ve all heard it, and let’s be honest, most of us have lived it.
“We’ll plug in the content later.”
Scenario-based AI Chatbots for Language Learning
, UX Planet - Medium
A Product Design Case StudyDuolingo’s gamified conversational AIPicture this: You’ve spent six months using a language app, completed hundreds of lessons, and mastered verb conjugations. Then you land in Paris, walk into a café, and freeze. The barista asks a simple question. Your brain scrambles. The words you practiced vanish. You point at the menu and mumble “café, s’il vous plaît.”
Sound familiar? You’re not alone. This gap between classroom fluency and real-world conversation has plagued language learners for decades. But in the past two years, a new breed of AI-powered tools is finally bridging that chasm — and the secret ingredient isn’t better grammar engines or flashier gamification. It’s context.
